. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . Paint Rock, on the French THE FRENCH BROAD. 134 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. replete with attraction that has not at some time been the abiding-place of the touristand stranger. Such is eminently true of our own America; and yet, in the vastness of the con-tinent, new beauties are being continually discovered, and points of interest are becomingplaces of resort, which, but a few ye
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . Paint Rock, on the French THE FRENCH BROAD. 134 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. replete with attraction that has not at some time been the abiding-place of the touristand stranger. Such is eminently true of our own America; and yet, in the vastness of the con-tinent, new beauties are being continually discovered, and points of interest are becomingplaces of resort, which, but a few years ago, were known only to the explorer or thelocal inhabitant. The Adirondacks, the Yosemite Valley, the canons of the Westernmountains, the wilds of Maine—these, and other localities, are becoming as familiar to thesummer traveller as are the fashionable neighborhoods of Niagara, Memphremagog, orthe White Mountains. Still another section of the country which seems destined at no distant day tobecome a place of recreation, and to attract the artist and lover of Nature, is thatportion of Western North Carolina through which course the beautiful waters of theFrench Broad River and other mountain-streams, and which may be described in gener
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